i'm guessing whoever posted this is being a little melodramatic, especially since I think people in real trouble don't go to a friend's house and ask people on the internet what to do. But then again, I was 15 8 years ago, and times change quickly.
I do want to point out to all the shit talkers, that if the kid's situation is legit, it doesn't mean he's a total asshole. Leaving my own childhood out of it, I knew kids with strict parents, and I knew kids with upper middle class/rich parents. The kids with the second group of parents could probably do all kinds of shit and get away with it with their parents probably describing them as good kids. There's tons of parents too involved with their own lives to care or notice what shit their kids do. A lot of times these people will have big houses, and while the parents are "upstairs" or out to dinner, their kids are in the basement bumping their xanax, having sex, drinking, etc. As long as these kids don't get caught or have any big problems, pull average grades in school, it's no big deal, and maybe they'll turn 16 and mom and dad will buy them a car.
On the other hand, kids can have super anal, strict parents, who bitch at them because they buy a CD with a curse word in it, or come home half an hour late (with a ridiculously early curfew to begin with) on a friday, etc. Or maybe they're poor, live in a small apartment, and their parents believe that all their kid should be doing is their homework, and maybe working a job so they can be better off than them one day. Their bedroom is probably right next to where their parents, or parent, sleeps, and they can't get away with shit.
That may have been an overboard explanation, but my point is that the kind of things that will set one kid and his parents constantly fighting and at odds with each other might be no big deal in someone else's family. That doesn't make one kid any "better" than the other.
Also, the whole "parents are always right", "honor thy mother and thy father" stuff is a bunch of shit to me. The world has assholes. I know some, you know some. Some of them grow up, and have kids. Just because you can physically have children does not automatically make you a good parent, give good advice, or stop being the asshole you were before the kid.
